Card
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Mana cost {4}{B/P}{B/P}{B/P}
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror Minion 2/2
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 93 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · C19 · #18
- Cheapest printing
- €0.64
- EDHREC salt
- 1.28
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Lifelink
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
93 known combos.
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Vilis, Broker of Blood + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Chainer, Dementia Master + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Gray Merchant of Asphodel + Dimir House Guard
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Asmodeus the Archfiend + Necrotic Ooze + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Produces: Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
A Phyrexian mana symbol contributes 1 toward the mana value of a card, even if life is paid for it. Specifically, K'rrik's mana value is always 7. - 2024-06-07 · Wizards of the Coast
K'rrik's ability lets you pay 2 life for {B} in any cost you pay, including the mana costs of spells, activation costs, and even costs for special actions (such as morph). Any time you pay mana, that's a cost. - 2019-08-23 · Wizards of the Coast
K'rrik's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered. - 2019-08-23 · Wizards of the Coast
K'rrik's ability doesn't modify or reduce costs you pay. It changes only how you may pay those costs. - 2019-08-23 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't pay 2 life to pay for generic mana in costs you pay, even if an effect says that you must spend black mana to pay that generic mana. - 2019-08-23 · Wizards of the Coast
If a cost contains a mana symbol that may be paid in multiple ways, such as {B/R}, {B/P}, or {2/B}, you choose how you'll pay it before you do so. If you choose to pay {B} this way, K'rrik's ability allows you to pay life rather than pay that mana.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast